Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was started in 2011 and played a key role in the development of the light-weight SPV wallets. Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us for a discussion of Electrum, their recent 2.0 release and the rapidly evolving Bitcoin wallet space in general.
Topics covered in this episode:

The evolution of Bitcoin wallets and what motivated him to start Electrum
Electrum 2.0 and its new features such as Multi-sig and hardware wallet support
The security tradeoffs between using an SPV wallet versus a full node client
How Bitcoin aliases could do away with Bitcoin addresses

Episode links:

Electrum
Electrum Github Repo
On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients
BIP 39
BIP 37
Versum MIT paper

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/069